How this will help

I
was born here by accident. My father came to study in the United
States and my mother, already pregnant with me, came with him. He earned a PhD in
Economics from the University of Southern California and having only come here to study, my parents went back to Santiago, Chile in 1968. In 1973, the
Chilean government was overthrown by a military junta, which threw the country into a state of
chaos. As the situation in Chile grew progressively worse, my father sought employment in the U.S. My family came back in 1974 and this is where I was
raised.

I
feel incredibly fortunate that I was able to grow up here; obtain a great
education here; make great, life-long friends here; fall in love here; marry
here; and start a successful business here. I deeply love this country, not
only because of what I was able to do here, but because it welcomed my family with open arms.

Since
that time, things have changed drastically. Over the last ten years, I
have seen innocent families torn apart by deportation. I have met immigrant
youth who live their lives in the shadows, with no hope for the future. I have
witnessed the suffering of immigrants from all over the world, who are at the
mercy of a system that no longer works.

This
is not the America that I grew up in, and this is not the America that I have
come to know and love. We need comprehensive immigration legislation, and we
need the House to act now.

Early in 2014, we will make our largest push. We will not hold off for even
a moment on pressuring the House to cast their votes!

Join
us and demand that immigration reform be passed in the
House as soon as possible.